Acting for Film- A Brush-Up for Actors Returning to the Craft

Monday, September 9, 2019, 7pm ET / 4pm PT

Are you coming back to acting after a hiatus?  This class is the perfect step to reconnect with your prior training. 

Actress/Educator Cathy Haase will aid actors making the transition back into the industry in this intensive experience that will help you relax into authentic and moving performances.  In this session Cathy will help you:

1) Strengthen Your Concentration on the Craft

2) Revitalize Your Prior Foundation of Training

3) Regain confidence in your character work

For this session, you may bring in a scene of choice, or have Cathy assign material for you to prepare. 

 

Cathy Haase

Cathy Haase is actress and teacher with many decades of stage and film experience. From feature film to low budgets she has created many memorable characters such as the wisecracking bartender in Another 48 HRS alongside Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte or in The Ballad of Little Jo with Ian McKellen. She has worked on Primetime TV and low budget experimental films. Her stage experience also runs the gamut of an award-winning one woman show to repertory and regional theater.

She has been a member of the prestigious Actors Studio since 1988, where she has garnered a vast wealth of experience that she is ready to share with her students. She is the author of Acting for Film, (Allworth/Skyhorse Press), now in its second edition.

As a teacher and workshop leader she says, “I demystify sense memory and method acting techniques for actors, film students, and writers so they can develop their ideas and performance to the greatest extent of their abilities.”

Her teaching experience includes, MIT, School of Visual Art, City College Theater Department and two of Germany’s most respected Film Academies.